As Cohen discusses just how strong of a response monsters illicit from the world around them, Dolly is no exception. Braidotti even refers to her at one point as a “techno-teratological animal,” which, going back to Cohen’s monster thesis, situates Dolly as monster-like. It is no surprise, then, that her creation sparked a wave of fear and anxiety so much so that “the nature of the public debates that unfolded tended to obscure the original motivations behind the cloning experiments. The focus of media coverage and social debates was on the possible use of the Roslin techniques in perpetuating especially fit sheep and, potentially, other animals including humans. This created a vision of cloning as an end in itself,” (García-Sancho 2015). It was more about how the fact she was able to be created marked her as a potential threat to humans. She represented a new form of becoming that one could define as going against the laws of nature and was therefore dangerous. It is interesting how the public responded to her potential when applied to humans again demonstrating a very anthropocentric reaction (how can this be used against us?).

Again looking at Betterton, Dolly represents a threat to the human species, “It is precisely that which cannot be imagined, at the edges of meaning, which threatens to annihilate the existence of the social subject. What is at the borderlines or indeterminate is potentially dangerous, because it is ambiguous” (Betterton, 133). Being half machine and half animal, she is an even more viable target for these concerns because she does not belong to either category perfectly. She should not be living, and her identity split between two worlds of being, her life occupies a space of not belonging/otherness. These spaces cannot be contained or controlled, which is daunting and unpredictable.

Now the other reaction to her entering the public stage was how the technique used in her conception could be used for profit. As a female body, she is already carrying heavily gendered discourses of exploitation and lack of control, which is now where we will move towards.